Eagle Raven Dancers, Buck Evans, Garrison Keillor, Tuna McIntyre, Dave Moore.
Metlakatla mountains ( Garrison Keillor ) Moon in Juneau ( Garrison Keillor ) Take Your Burden to The Lord ( Garrison Keillor ) Little hey dad ( Dave Moore ) Casey Jones ( Dave Moore ) Little girl polka ( Dave Moore ) If you lose ( Dave Moore ) Walk as a bird ( Tuna McIntyre ) Sleeping song ( Tuna McIntyre ) Anywhere ( Tuna McIntyre ) Reading ( Tuna McIntyre ) Raven and Eagle love songs (Eagle Raven Dancers ) Hollywood blues ( Buck Evans )
Alaskan Life Support Bertha's Kitty Boutique Bigger Hammer Hardware Chatterbox Cafe McKinley, Matt PBS Frequent Listener Program Powdermilk Biscuits Reverend Neely Sidetrack Tap Windblad, Mildred
Mildred Windblad came to AK in the spring of 1939 to escape from her impossible mother, Nyla. Mildred was 31 and 6 feet 1-1/2 inches tall. She took a job teaching 8 handsome native children at the Kotzebue Christian Academy. Rev. Neeley fell in love with her. In June, she flew to Fairbanks and got a job as editor of the Midnight Sun. In July, she headed south, bought a cabin in the woods, planted a garden, shot a moose, and ate it with her bare hands. When Reverend Neeley knocked on the door, she slammed the door on him. She headed south, arriving in Yakutat in mid September when a thick blizzard struck. A herd of bears ran over her. hey were pulling a long sled, driven by Matt McKinley. They fell in love and were married 2 weeks later. He had a prospecting claim on the side of Mount Elaine. They built a sluice to hold the spring flood flow of Webster's Creek. It took 2 days to sluice the entire mountain. Matt plugged the hole in the side of the sluice for 48 hours. When Matt woke, the 2 flour sacks of gold were gone and Mildred's deep footsteps were headed towards Canada. Matt had built a cabin for Nyla. Later, they found a second trail. Rev. Neeley had followed her and Mildred used him for a pack animal. She hit him with a sack full of gold and escaped. No one knows where she went. Aunt Betty is the only person who knows the story.
T Me's talks about his trip to Russia. GK's poem about the Alaskan village of Hyperbole.
rebroadcast on August 6, 1988.
Archival contributors: Frank Berto